Saturday, February 25, 2006

Leo Strauss, Darwinian Natural Right, and the Platonic Roots of Intelligent Design Theory

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As I indicate in Darwinian Conservatism , the arguments for "intelligent design theory" as an alternative to Darwinian evolution w...
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A Review of Richard Weikart's FROM DARWIN TO HITLER

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In Darwinian Conservatism , I have a long section criticizing Richard Weikart's book From Darwin to Hitler , which argues that Darwin...
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Monday, February 20, 2006

Fukuyama, The Iraq War, and Darwinian Conservatism

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In my book Darwinian Conservatism , I say very little about international relations and foreign policy. Francis Fukuyama's article in T...
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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Darwinian Libertarianism: A Reply to David Gordon

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David Gordon has written a review of Darwinian Conservatism for The Mises Review (the winter 2005 issue), which is published by the Ludwig...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin

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On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky; and Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. The coinciden...
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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Leo Strauss, Charles Darwin, and Natural Right

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Those influenced by Leo Strauss cannot agree on how to solve what he identified as the fundamental problem of natural right. The problem is...
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Friday, January 27, 2006

The Dangers of Democracy

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The landslide victory of Hamas in the Palestinian parliamentary elections exposes the mistake of the Bush administration in promoting democr...
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Saturday, January 21, 2006

Stephen Barr's "The Miracle of Evolution"

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In Darwinian Conservatism , I argue that there is no necessary conflict between biblical religion and Darwinian evolution. Darwin employed t...
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Harvey Mansfield's Machiavellian Presidency

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Conservatives believe that ordered liberty requires limited government with a balance of powers under the rule of law. In Darwinian Conserv...
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Monday, January 09, 2006

Religion, Morality, and Darwinism: A Response to Carson Holloway

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One of the most thoughtful attacks on Darwinian conservatism has just been published by Spence Publishing--Carson Holloway's THE RIGHT D...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Jeffrey Hart on American Conservatism

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The WALL STREET JOURNAL has published an article by Jeffrey Hart on American conservatism entitled "The Burke Habit" . Although h...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

The Fear of Teaching Darwin

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INSIDE HIGHER ED has a piece by me on "The Fear of Teaching Darwin" . I comment on some of the recent controversies in the United...
Saturday, November 19, 2005

The Darwinian Conservatism of Transcendent Morality: A Reply to Bob Cheeks

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Bob Cheeks has written a review of Darwinian Conservatism for the IntellectualConservative.com website. He begins: "Dr. Larry Arnhart,...
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Thursday, November 17, 2005

From Darwin to Hitler to Dover

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Michael Behe is one of the leading proponents of "intelligent design theory." He is particularly important for the ID movement be...
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Friday, October 14, 2005

The Chimpanzee Politics of the Miers Nomination

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Conservative resistance to President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court shows that conservatives are returning...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Teaching the Controversy by Teaching Darwin

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One manifestation of the conservatives' suspicion of Darwinian science is that many of them--particularly in the U.S.--tend to oppose th...
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Saturday, September 10, 2005

Reply to Herbert Gintis

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Herbert Gintis has written a review of DARWINIAN CONSERVATISM for Amazon.com, in which he criticizes the book as a "failure" becau...
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Monday, September 05, 2005

"Conservatives need Charles Darwin"

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That’s the message of Larry Arnhart’s new book Darwinian Conservatism, launched this month by Imprint Academic . Ever since the publication ...
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Friday, September 02, 2005

About the author

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Larry Arnhart is Professor of Political Science in Northern Illinois University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and special...
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Thursday, September 01, 2005

Why conservatives are wrong to fear Darwinian biology

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In his book, Arnhart sketches twenty natural desires that are innate in human beings as shaped by Darwinian evolution. And he shows how the ...
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